Evgeny Morozov - How the Net aids dictatorships, watch the keynote below
Who is Evgeny Morozov?
Writer Evgeny Morozov studies the political and social aspects of the Internet. Right now, he’s working on a book about the Internet’s role in politics — and especially how the Web influences civic engagement and regime stability in authoritarian, closed societies or in countries “in transition.”
The war of the answer engines, searchology, Google Squared vs. Wolfram|Alpha.
What is Google Squared?
“Google Squared is launching later this month in labs. Google Squared returns search results in a spreadsheet format. It structures the unstructured data on web pages. So a search for Small Dogs returns results with names, description, size, weight, origin, etc., in columns and rows.
Google is looking for data structures on the web that imply facts, and then grabbing it for Squared results. “It takes an incredible amount of compute power to create one of those squares,…”
source: Techcrunch
So, who’s gonna win? Chuck Norris or Van Damme?